Organizers of the Central Michigan International Film Festival have announced that the festival will be held earlier in the year than usual.

This year’s festival is set for Feb. 8, 9 and 10, as well as Feb. 14, 15, 16 and 17, with films shown at either Celebration! Cinema in Mt. Pleasant or Park Library Auditorium at Central Michigan University.

Previously, the festival was in March.

Opening the festival will be “Perks of Being a Wallflower” at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 8 at Celebration! Cinema, followed by “The Artist” at 4 p.m. Feb. 8, also at Celebration! Cinema. Both films also will be shown at the same times on Feb. 9; in addition “The Artist” will be shown at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 and “Perks of Being a Wallflower” will be shown at 9 p.m. Feb. 10, all at Celebration! Cinema.

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Other films on opening day will be “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” (from Thailand) fantasy - not rated, at 2:15 p.m. in Park Library Auditorium; “Get a Job,” a comedy, at 4:30 p.m. at Park Library Auditorium; “The Kid with a Bike,” a drama rated PG-13 (French with English subtitles) at 6:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. in Park Library Auditorium; and “Detropia,” a U.S. documentary, at 8:30 p.m. in Park Library Auditorium.

The festival is sponsored by the Film Society at CMU and the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts at CMU.

Organizers, in a press release, said this year’s schedule includes five engaging short subjects, a feature-length documentary made in Michigan, another documentary shot primarily at the South Pole, an off-beat comedy from Hawaii, an Academy Award winner from 2012 (“The Artist”) and 14 other feature-length comedies, dramas and documentaries, anda romantic film for Valentine’s Day. (“Romantics Anonymous,” a comedy-romance from France, will be shown at Park Library Auditorium at 8 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.)

Tickets are $10 for a booklet of 10 tickets or $4 for individual tickets. They are available in advance at Celebration! Cinema or at Java City in Park Library on campus.

A question and answer session is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. Feb. 9 in Moore Hall 108 on the CMU campus with R.J. Rolak, an associate producer for “Get a Job” (which will be shown in Park Library Auditorium at CMU just prior to the Q&A).

Another Q&A session is planned for Feb. 16 at 4:30 p.m. in the Park Library’s Baber Room with Keith Reimink, director of the film “No Horizon Anymore” about life at the South Pole. The Q&A immediately follows the screening of the film in Park Library Auditorium at CMU.

For a complete listing of films at the festival, see www.cmfilmfestival.com. The festival also will be profiled in the Feb. 7 issue of Time Out.